Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c9.34

Language: English

c9.34

It is desirable to trace a little more fully the history of the kammālar, the South Indian craftsmen who thus came to Ceylon from time to time, and there joined their fellows already settled there and practising their craft. The Kammālar in South India are the craftsmen par excellence, the builders and sculptors of the great Hindu temples. The Artificers following account of the Kammalar in South India is mainly condensed from Dr. Pulney Andy’s paper in No. 50 of ‘The Journal of Indian Art and Industry’:

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